A barista works a pump in one of the most chaste "uniforms."
We're not making this up: in Bonny Lake, WA, there's a coffeeshop called Hot Chick-a-Latte. Each of the "chick" baristas wears a bikini, lingerie, pasties, or only a scarf to cover up. And, as usual, there's a public outcry-- although it's for the wrong reason this time...
While mostly male customers line up in full approval of topless baristas at Hot Chick-a-Latte, several residents on Bonny Lake, with a population of 16,000, are complaining.
Bonny Lake
police officers went undercover to check out the topless baristas
themselves. [We'll bet they did-- ignoring bank robbery calls in their hurry to stop this outrage. - Ed.] The cops passed on their information to the city attorney,
who found an ordinance to crack down on the coffee shop.
Exposing a woman’s
breast below the areola is classified as adult entertainment in the
community. The owner of Hot-Chick’a-Latte said she doesn’t have a
problem with the ordinance -- that it will just shake-up the rotation
of attire and probably eliminate scarf day.
We already have Hooters, do we really need another restaurant to takes us a step back to the reign of Caligula? Portland Indy Media debated this last year when covering a different Seattle topless coffeehouse: sexual exploitation? Harmless? You decide.
Of course, we don't expect this place to last much longer-- male patrons will become bored by the lack of nudity, some female patrons will stop going there entirely, and possible gender discrimination lawsuits will bog down the bottom line.
Or maybe, just maybe, this will catch on and... naw, nothing short of armed revolution will destroy Starbucks...
Via MyFox.
